Tribal Knowledge Paradigm: Background

Tribal Knowledge Paradigm: Background

This is the first part of the first chapter of our next book, “The Tribal Knowledge Paradigm.”  We aren’t going to put the whole book here, just enough. We believe that the ever-increasing speed of change and complexity are driving...
Tribal Knowledge Paradigm: Basics

Tribal Knowledge Paradigm: Basics

What is Tribal Knowledge? (This is the first part of the 3rd Chapter of the new book: The Tribal Knowledge Paradigm to be published October, 2012.)  We struggled with a definition, as there was no usable one available anywhere.  So we made up our own...
Tribal Knowledge Paradigm – Discovery

Tribal Knowledge Paradigm – Discovery

Discovery is the process in the Tribal Knowledge Paradigm that a War on Waste project team will go through as it tries to understand why a particular problem exists.  It involves trying to reach the root cause of the problem.  It is a search to discover...
Tribal Knowledge Paradigm – The Key

Tribal Knowledge Paradigm – The Key

An observation was made in an earlier book by one of the authors (The Tribal Knowledge Paradox)[1] that challenges executives to ask themselves: Why is it that employees are at one moment touted as a most prized asset and in the next breath, they are victims of...
Tribal Knowledge Paradigm – Beginning

Tribal Knowledge Paradigm – Beginning

The Tribal Knowledge Paradigm started with Mabel and so she is an important person in the evolution of the War on Waste.  This story began twenty-five years ago, as I stood in front of a group of employees who had been forced to attend a class I had been...
Tribal Knowledge and Yes/No Charts

Tribal Knowledge and Yes/No Charts

Perhaps one of the most powerful tools of the Tribal Knowledge Paradigm is the “Yes/No Chart.”  I say that it is powerful because I am ecstatic by the results of this very simple tool. What is a “Yes/No” chart?  Very simply, it is a chart that is set up to...